Tigers of Central India

[Rishi]

(07-31-2018, 11:22 PM)Pckts Wrote:

(07-31-2018, 11:09 AM)Roflcopters Wrote: He is definitely not a Kanha male judging by his face and doesn’t look anything like Umarpani male, i know it’s hard for people to believe but tigers do use corridors more frequently than some people might think. I know of atleast 5 cases, one bizarre case of a female from Central India that settled down in Northern India. Im willing to bet his ancestry is either from Nagzira, Tadoba or Brahmapuri. what a stud!

Of course, but those events are rare and having seen the distance with my own eyes as well as the human presence, a journey like that would be extraordinary. 
Even Jais journey was only 160km I believe, compared to the 413km thats required to do the Tadoba-Kanha journey.
The odds of him being from Tadoba are extremely unlikely in my opinion, I know his look resembles Tadoba Tigers but even tigers with in the same reserve can look very different from one another.
T2 and the New male seen in Kanha recently both look very distinct from most of the other Kanha Males and you can say the same for some males in Bandhavgarh and Pench as well. 
I'm not ruling it out, I just find it very unlikely is all.

They don't necessarily come directly from Tadoba, not in one generation. Kanha regularly exchanges genes with the population of Balaghat Forest Division, which in turn is connected directly to Nagzira-Navegaon landscape & indirectly to Tadoba.

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(03-13-2018, 11:51 AM)Rishi Wrote: The newcomer Balaghat male of Kanha Tiger Reserve! (from ToK)

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@Roflcopters is right about one thing... the male looks nothing like Umarpani. Even if this male is his progeny, it's more probable than not that he carries Maharashtra's blood from the mother's (maternal grandfather's more likely) side...
It's not that rare either. The region from you passed through houses people relocated from Kanha core, settled along the roads. Less than 10 kms away, on all sides, were large forest tracts along the hills, with resident tigers in most of them. Reply